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Friday, January 11, 2013

I have spent this week working on a custom quilt order. You will be forgiven for thinking that I am re-posting a quilt made late last year, but I promise the pictures here are all of this week's creation. Please bare with me.

Again, I have used both standard quilting cottons and reclaimed vintage bed linens - in a wide variety of stripes - to make a simple squares quilt top. This quilt is for my customer's young son and as such I have avoided over using pink and purple stripe fabrics, although I did not think it necessary to omit these colors entirely.

The back of the quilt features a patchwork panel of matching stripe fabric on a background of Robert Kaufman Kona Cotton in Ash. The solid backing fabric makes a feature of the grid lines created by the quilting (love!). When quilting I match the color of the bobbin thread closely to the main color of the backing fabric (in this case I used a light grey thread) and as such the quilting lines are obvious but not obtrusive.

20 comments:

I LOVE it and have put it on my "to copy" list. I have always loved stripes and try to put them in every single quilt I make as it gives movement. I used to work in a quilt store and people were terrified of stripes. I always had to talk them into it. Wish people weren't so "scared" of stripes. They really do make a quilt, IMO. :) Thanks for sharing.

and ... I am new to quilting and to your blog (although I have followed for a while!) : could you please tell me what kind of sewing machine is good for quilting?? I own a very simple basic Singer but would love an electronic Brother. Any advice? thank you !Sophie (from France)

I love it! And am very tempted to make something similar using old mens shirts - I have thrifted plenty over the years and think this would be the perfect way to use them to make a truly masculine quilt!